Autzoo.436
gripes
utzoo!henry
Tue Apr 14 15:26:01 1981
more on kill...
The reason why an ordinary kill will not kill a shell is that it's
that way deliberately.  If you say "kill 0", this will kill every
process you can reach -- EXCEPT YOUR SHELL.  So if something is
going badly wrong, you can clobber everything without logging yourself
off at the same time.

"kill -9" lacks a little something of being mnemonic -- suggestions
are solicited for some more mnemonic form.  Chris has suggested
"shellkill" (i.e. "shellkill 123" expands to "kill -9 123").  Comments?